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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014/section-61",
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  "legislation": "nia/2014/8",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "section/61",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Recommendations",
  "text": "(1) The Commissioner, having adjudicated on any matter, may make recommendations to a council about any matters relating to—\n(a) the exercise of the council's functions; or\n(b) the failure to observe the code of conduct.\n(2) The Commissioner—\n(a) must send a copy of any recommendations under subsection (1) to the Department; and\n(b) may send a copy of those recommendations to any other public body.\n(3) A council to which recommendations are made under subsection (1) must—\n(a) consider the recommendations; and\n(b) within such period beginning with the day on which the recommendations are received as the Commissioner may specify, prepare a report for the Department giving details of what action the council has taken or is proposing to take as a result of the recommendations.\n(4) A council's function of considering a report under subsection (3) may be discharged only by the council (and accordingly, is not to be a function to which section 7 applies).\n(5) If the Department is not satisfied with the action the council has taken or proposes to take in relation to the recommendations, the Department may require the council to publish a statement giving details of the recommendations made by the Commissioner and of the council's reasons for not fully implementing the recommendations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 61 in operation at 2.6.2014 by S.R. 2014/153, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2014/8/section/61",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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